I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
– Stephen Hawking
Kategori: Citat
I frihedens næve
There is just something so grating about seeing someone who isn’t the target of oppression explain how it makes them feel freer.
– Sarah McLaughlin på Mastodon (link med kontekst)
Men det var dengang – måske
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
– R.H. Tawney, ‘Religion and the Rise of Capitalism’ (1926)
Teori og praksis: Fundament
We should see the theoretical and the practical as informing one another, but too often we see them in opposition. E.g. the “productivity hack” is the enemy of theoretical reflection. Productivity and reflections are sides of a coin.
This is daddy dialing in
“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”
Hokus Fokus
Mens voksne bruger det nedsættende begreb Curlingbørn, så tager de selv raskt ud i weekenden og modtager en medalje for at gennemføre et ligegyldigt motionsløb i en middelmådig tid. Dette dokumenteres naturligvis på de digitale medier, så venner og bekendte har mulighed for at anerkende denne ikkepræstation.
– Niels Overgaard: Det hele handler ikke om dig, s. 20
Make it till you fake it
The structural differences between in-game play and in-game work are mostly arbitrary, and “real” work is half a game, anyway. Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called “professionalism” that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions-every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.
– Cory Doctorow: In real life
To punkter
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain
Sandwich Tide
‘I just don’t feel like a submarine is a real boat. Like, it’s the bottom of a boat twice. It’s a boat sandwich.’
– Gamefully Unemployed podcast review of Crimson Tide.
Den søde klang
Rocco’s voice had a musical quality—like an accordion being kicked down some stairs.
– Alex White: A big ship at the edge of the universe